Britain’s Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid have gained their seventh successive French Open wheelchair doubles title.
The highest seeds claimed a 6-2 6-3 victory over Spain’s Martin de la Puente and France’s Stephane Houdet to win their twenty fourth Grand Slam title collectively.
“This was one of many hardest tournaments we confronted once we first began taking part in doubles with one another and it took us a good few years to get our palms on this trophy,” Hewett mentioned through the trophy presentation.
“To win seven in a row is a few achievement and I simply need to say it is an absolute pleasure to be your doubles accomplice.”
With the group cheering in opposition to them, in favour of dwelling hope Houdet, Hewett and Reid produced a scientific efficiency – hitting 29 winners to their opponents’ 14 and successful 55% of factors on the French-Spanish duo’s first serve.
“Huge due to Alfie, we have been a staff for a very long time now however we’re discovering new methods to play and new methods to take pleasure in it,” Reid mentioned.
“It is a large 12 months in wheelchair tennis. It is 50 years of the game and once we see interviews of the folks, the fellows who created this sport, everybody says they’re amazed by the place we at the moment are and the way far the game has come.”
Hewett added: “Tennis wins – 50 years of wheelchair tennis, to be on a courtroom like this, having this type of environment, it is an absolute pleasure and lengthy might it proceed.”
